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Is Fermented Food Rotting Food?

A lot of people ask me if fermented food is rotting food. Haha. Someone said to me today: “Sarah, couldn’t you call it something other than ‘pre-digested food’? It really doesn’t sound too good.”

On Monday, our broadband provider decided to cut our postcode off from the internet from the start of the day until mid afternoon. No warning. Just a pre-recorded message … when the penny dropped that it wasn’t our own connection at fault and I called them.

“In the interests of giving you the best service, we are doing maintenance work. You should have broadband service again by around 3pm.”

Rather than get cross, I dug into fermented matters and produced this table of food. Yayy!

Just Radio 2, me and a room full of ingredients. Woo hoo! (I forget ‘time’ when I’m in my kitchen ‘creating.’ 🙂

If I tell you that every item high-lighted in orange is ‘pre-digested’ .. do they still look inviting? Wink.

I know. I have to tell this story with pictures. I ‘get it.’ Western culture isn’t brought up on a diet of fermented food. We’re not familiar with it, so it’s perfectly normal to think that it sounds a bit weirdy bum. 😉

Anyway, THIS is the just the beginning of what you can do with ‘fermented food.’

Thanks Katrina. It was a really fun day. Hubby gave me good marks out of 10 for the bread!

Today I tested my sauerkraut and pickles out on a some biz buddies who aren’t my typical reader. I was totally surprised when they loved them! It gave me the impetus to ask what they thought of my cashew yoghurt. I added in a little sweetener and they all loved it. Woo hoo!

Other ferments not ready yet, but dead happy about the yoghurt! Will be sharing them as soon as I can. 🙂